Santiago Herminio Gonzalez Y Barredo v. Edelmira Folla Schenck, Individually, and as of the Last Will and Testament of Maria Cintas Folla

DOOLING, District Judge:

Plaintiff, a practicing lawyer in Havana, Cuba, now resident in the United States, sued on a contingent fee retainer agreement for twenty percent of a settlement in the amount of $1,100,000 and interest which the defendant executrix had received in 1962 for a release of all of the claims of her testatrix to share in the intestate property of her deceased brother Oscar Cintas, a national and resident of Cuba who died in Cuba on May 11, 1957. Alternatively plaintiff sued in quantum, meruit.

The trial judge denied any recovery. He made elaborate and careful findings of…